Google DeepMind announces three new Gemini models: 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, with improved efficiency, lower cost, and specialized capabilities for agentic workflows.

New model

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Where to run it

Google AntigravityNew model· 21 Jul

Gemini 3.6 Flash in Google Antigravity

Google Antigravity announces Gemini 3.6 Flash, a new model with improved coding, knowledge work, multimodal performance, and reduced token usage by up to 17% compared to 3.5 Flash.

How it measures

Artificial Analysis · Intelligence Index

3499thof 696 models

Coding index69.2 · 54th

Median 12.5Top 57.6

Benchmarks, as Artificial Analysis ran them

93%GPQA Diamond
41%Humanity's Last Exam
7%Terminal-Bench 4.0
78%Terminal-Bench 2.1
53%SciCode
30%τ²-Bench Banking
80%Long context reasoning

Per 1M tokens: $0.75 in · $3.75 out
Context: 1M tokens

LMArena · Text22ndof 417

1Gemini 4 Argon (High)
2Muse Wonder (Max)
3Claude Opus 5.5 (High)
4Claude Fable 5 (High)

Gemini 3.6 Flash (High) · 1,483 (1,479–1,487) · 36,079 votes

Rated by versionGemini FlashLevel with Gemini 3.5 Flash; Gemini 3.8 Flash rates 13 points higher.

Gemini 3.6 Flash · 1,483 (1,479–1,487) · 22nd

Against list priceRating for the price

Gemini 3.6 Flash · 1,483 · $1.50 per 1M tokens ($0.75 in, $3.75 out) · 1M context

LMArena, CC BY 4.0, 20 October 2026 · prices OpenRouter, list price blended 3:1, read 22 October 2026 · Artificial Analysis, read 22 October 2026

Everything else, by date

Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite generally available (GA)Model update21 Jul

About the model

Lab: Google DeepMind
Price: $1.50/1M input tokens and $7.50/1M output tokens (3.6 Flash); $0.3/1M input tokens and $2.5/1M output tokens (3.5 Flash-Lite)
Released: 21 July 2026, per models.dev
OpenRouter: Listed 21 July 2026google/gemini-3.6-flash

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